Unforgiven
Year: | 1992 |
Director: | Clint Eastwood |
Cast: | Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris, Gene Hackman |
And maybe it is, but that just makes you realise how lame and cliched the western genre is to start with. The only real new point it makes is of the spiritual and emotional impact of killing someone (presumably to counter a lifetime of westerns in popular culture with the whole six guns at dawn thing).
The story wasn't particularly memorable (just a stereotypical retired gunslinger and his posse coming to a stereotypical town with a stereotypical rednecked sheriff) the characters aren't terribly distinctive and the story - even though the best it can be - is just a western.